Family of slain hostage says Defense Ministry removed stone criticizing government from grave

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of IDF soldier Ron Sherman who was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and whose body was recovered during a military operation in the Gaza Strip, at the cemetery in Lehavim, December 15, 2023. (Flash90)
Family and friends mourn at the funeral of IDF soldier Ron Sherman who was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and whose body was recovered during a military operation in the Gaza Strip, at the cemetery in Lehavim, December 15, 2023. (Flash90)

The family of slain hostage IDF soldier Ron Sherman accuses the Defense Ministry of removing a stone they had placed on his grave that criticized the government for playing a role in his death.

“Kidnapped, abandoned and sacrificed in Gaza, by the government of failure,” the stone had read.

Sherman’s mother, Ma’ayan, blames a worker from the Defense Ministry for removing the stone from his grave in a military cemetery. She replaces it today with a stone that reads in part, “I’m asking forgiveness for the abandonment, your brutal kidnapping, the fact that you were sacrificed for political gain after the biggest failure in the history of the State of Israel which you loved so much.”

Soldier Ron Sherman was taken captive by Hamas terrorists from an IDF base near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023. His body was recovered by the IDF and returned to Israel on December 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

Ron was kidnapped on October 7 and his body was recovered from Gaza in mid-December. Yesterday the IDF said that autopsies of his body and those of two other people that were recovered at the same time showed they had no signs of trauma or gunfire, indicating that they were not killed directly by an airstrike or other IDF action.

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